[Daskill]

My subscription is expiring soon on McAffee Security Center. Should I renew the subscription or buy a new security program?

Opinions?

[etaf]

your get a few - my view is I dont like Norton or macafee and prefer to remove these and use some of the free products around like avast
but nod32 is a very good virus

i'm sure you will get a lot of advice here .....

[mrss]

First comment is that you can almost always buy a new copy of McAfee or any other AV software at the store and get an upgrade rebate that will beat the web price. In fact, if you buy Turbotax, most office supply stores will give you McAfee, Norton, Kaspersky, and several other AV/utility/financial packages for free after rebate, if you want to float several hundred bucks out there in rebateland.

Second comment is that changing security packages can be troublesome. You might get removal issues or install issues. If it works, why change. LOL, worst is when you put in a new package and it says your PC is loaded with stuff that was missed. Then you have to sift thru the data and decide if it was overly stringent scanning or if your pC really was compromised. McAfee, for all its faults, probably hasn't left you out hanging though.

Anyway, I'm in the same boat, with McAfee expiring on my laptop next month. I am buying Turbotax though and will choose either the "free" Kaspersky or Norton then.

My fall back position, if I dislike Kaspersky/Norton, is to go with the free Avast product and the paid Online Armor firewall, which is what I have on my desktop PC's. It's a good combo, in my opinion.

Also, keep your web browser up-to-date, along with all the plug-ins, like Java, Adobe Flash, etc. I think the majority of bad files are getting loaded via website clicks these days.